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SEM

English translation: Ministry for Women's Affairs/Ministry for Women

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Spanish term or phrase:SEM
English translation:Ministry for Women's Affairs/Ministry for Women
Entered by: Tim Jenkins

06:46 Mar 4, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics
Spanish term or phrase: SEM
This acronym is listed in a text from the Dominican Republic in the answer to a question as to what type of people would be good choices to sit on an oversight committee looking after the rights of AIDS patients:

Médicos, ONGs, personal de la comunidad, PVVS, SEM, iglesias, sociedades de padres y amigos de la escuela
Daniel Burns (X)
Local time: 07:52
Ministry for Women's Affairs/Ministry for Women
Explanation:
SEM = la Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer =
(Secretariat of State)/Ministry for Women/(Women's Affairs)

http://hrw.org/reports/2004/dr0704/3.htm
....Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer [Ministry for Women, SEM], Estadísticas para la Planificación Social con Perspectiva de Género [Statistics for Social Planning with a Gender Perspective] (Santo Domingo: Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer, 2000).
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Tim Jenkins
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:52
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2Ministry/Department of Women's Affairs
Mónica Algazi
4 +3Ministry for Women's Affairs/Ministry for Women
Tim Jenkins
3Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer
jmf


  

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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Ministry/Department of Women's Affairs


Explanation:
En la República Dominicana, la SEM es la Secretaría de la Mujer.

Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 09:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tim Jenkins: Ministry FOR Women's Affairs, otherwise I agree and wouldn't have submitted my answer if I'd seen yours first. Suerte!
15 mins
  -> Tienes razón, Tim.
agree  Swatchka
3 hrs
  -> Gracias, Swatchka.
agree  Cinnamon Nolan: FOR
5 hrs
  -> Tienes razón. Gracias, Cinnamon.
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer


Explanation:
Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer (SEM) http://www.sem.gov.do/

This is the only organization I can think of or find with this acronym in the DR. HTH

jmf
United States
Local time: 08:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Ministry for Women's Affairs/Ministry for Women


Explanation:
SEM = la Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer =
(Secretariat of State)/Ministry for Women/(Women's Affairs)

http://hrw.org/reports/2004/dr0704/3.htm
....Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer [Ministry for Women, SEM], Estadísticas para la Planificación Social con Perspectiva de Género [Statistics for Social Planning with a Gender Perspective] (Santo Domingo: Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer, 2000).



    Reference: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cedaw/dominicanrepublic1998.htm...
    Reference: http://www.usaid.gov/dr/docs/press_center/releases/20051130_...
Tim Jenkins
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  patricia scott
1 hr
  -> gracias patricia
agree  Sandra Holt
2 hrs
  -> gracias Sandra
agree  Mónica Algazi
5 hrs
  -> Gracias Monica
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